Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. Read more...
Within the focus area (speerpunt) “water” of Dutch development cooperation policy, there are two key strands: improving integrated water resources management (IWRM) and the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. At policy level, relevant linkages between these two areas are... Read more...
Watershed heeft een geïntegreerde aanpak om SDG6 te behalen. Read more...
The Watershed partnership's integrated approach to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6. Read more...
4th International Conference on Water & Society, 5 - 7 June 2017, Seville, Spain. The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK,... Read more...
In the first nine months of the strategic partnership Watershed – empowering citizens context analysis and stakeholder and factor analyses have been carried out. These analyses will give direction to the partnership's activities for the coming months. Read more...
An interview with Dr. Ritesh Kumar of Wetlands International South Asia. Read more...
Valuable lessons for those seeking institutional financial support for water management. Read more...
The Dutch Water Bank was initially established primarily to finance flood control, but the model is potentially applicable to other aspects of water... Read more...
The Global Water Integrity Outlook was launched in The Netherlands on 15 April 2016. Read more...
The focus is on salt water intrusion in coastal groundwater systems, as groundwater is the main resource of drinking water and irrigation water for... Read more...
This third post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at the idea of water security. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management, and the second looked at water services from a... Read more...
This second post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at water services from a water resource management (WRM) perspective. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management. Read more...
"We can see that what was happening six or seven thousand years ago is still affecting what is happening in the subsurface from a salinity point of view. If you want to know what is happening now, you have to go back in time and try to understand how the groundwater system works," says Oude Essink Read more...
En 2013, la politique des Pays-Bas en matière d’aide au développement s’est réorientée vers le monde des affaires considéré comme le principal moteur d’une croissance durable au détriment de l’aide publique au développement. Read more...
This article was written by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth as part of a series of posts on water resources management. The first discusses the thorny problem of 'integration' in management of water. Read more...
The Managing Saltwater Intrusion Impacts in Bangladesh (SWIBANGLA) applied research project held two workshops in June 2014: one on groundwater modelling and one on groundwater quality monitoring. Read more...
Brochure presenting updates and progress within the KALDRR-WASH project (March 2014) Read more...